alex8882
Well-Known Member
Well found the angles for valve seats if i need to recut them as they are fairly big. Freind of mine has the cutters. Worse case is i have to buy some new valves. Undid the oil filler cap with engine running earlier, sounded like a bottle of fizzy drink being opened lol. Think it may have blown the rear crank seal aswell, as the bell housing is soaked in oil and its lost a fair amount. Oh well i guess its back off the road until fixedIf the valve isn't seating correctly then blow back would be present and give the same symptoms as cracked head etc.
If you have run the engine for a while with valves that haven't seated correctly, then there is a chance that the seats and the valves t he selves are damaged.
An engine always runs better older diesel when cold. Fact of life. Perhaps with veg oil there wasn't enough compression to run properly until warm due to open valve on compression stroke